Quesada Wizard Man of the Year
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWizard’s 2006 Awards are out, and you’ll have to pick up the magazine to see all the winners, but they have released the Man of the Year, and it’s “The man known as Joe Q to friends, co-workers and Internet fans”: It was all there—Marvel’s entire publishing plan for 2006 through 2008 [...]
Continue ReadingBid on Brad Meltzer
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet…or at least dinner with Brad Meltzer. Volunteer Florida Foundation is auctioning off dinner with several famed authors, so if money is no object, your dreams of an erudite literary dinner can come true! Imagine having a private dinner with New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer (The Book of Fate, The [...]
Continue ReadingStuff 11/16
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Trend-watcher really on top of that comic book thing. § The Austin Chronicle reviews ROCKETO and GØDLAND. § The Stranger reviews LOST GIRLS: The last time I was in New York, I was just arriving at a fancy dinner when I got a phone call from my senior editor at the Internationalist. As [...]
Continue ReadingGordon Lee Motions Denied, CBLDF Proceeds to Trial
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe CBLDF sends word that their motions to dismiss the Gordon Lee case have been denied and the case will go to trial: The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has learned that its recent motions to dismiss the case Georgia v. Gordon Lee have been denied. The Fund is now preparing [...]
Continue ReadingThanks!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetFor all the birthday wishes and good will and shout outs and what not from amazingly far and wide. I am humbled by the richness of friends I am fortunate enough to have, and you all brightened my day considerably. Now…back to the snark.
Continue ReadingWhite City
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Our rating: 9.7! As you read this, we’re probably recovering from our birthday celebrations, so enjoy. Perhaps the best part of this video is hearing Viggo speak with Clive Owen’s voice. Slash away! [Link via Colleen.]
Continue ReadingAfrica Comics exhibit opens tonight
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Crap, here’s one more AWESOME comics event taking place tonight which sounds really groundbreaking: November 15, 2006 – March 18, 2007 Africa Comics The first-ever exhibition of comic art from Africa comes to The Studio Museum in Harlem A new generation of African artists is expressing itself through a medium most Americans associate with [...]
Continue ReadingNEXUS returns by Baron and Rude
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Well here’s a nice birthday present for The Beat! It seems Mike Baron and Steve Rude have ironed out their differences and are working on NEXUS again…oh and apparently I am working on the anthology! Yikes! Steve Rude announced today the formation of Rude Dude Productions, LLC. Rude Dude will publish [...]
Continue ReadingDiamond announces new Kids Group
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDiamond gives details on new hires and new division: In 2006, Diamond Book Distributors (DBD) played a key role in cultivating the unprecedented growth, impressive book market sales increases, and immense consumer popularity of the graphic novel format. Today, DBD announced several organizational changes and unveiled [...]
Continue ReadingWizard World Texas round-up
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We have been a bit remiss in covering the WizWorld Texas aftermath. Scott Hinze has a big round-up at Newsie, but even Wizard’s own PR machine says the show drew only half of what they expected: Wizard World, the nation’s foremost touring event for pop culture, comic books, anime, toys, games and [...]
Continue ReadingComics and the Long Tail
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Okay, it’s late and we’re not so hot with numbers and graphs, but a couple of blogs have done some number crunching so you can see the Long Tail theory in action for comics. Yet Another Comics Blog kicked it off last month by making some actual graphs that show the “inflection [...]
Continue Reading"As more graphic novels appear in libraries, so do challenges"
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThus reads the headline on a story , widely circulated via the AP which looks at the Marshall Library matter in a wider context: The Chicago-based American Library Association said it knows of at least 14 graphic novel challenges in U.S. libraries over the past two to three years. Among the titles [...]
Continue ReadingTim Sale on HEROES
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As is widely known, Tim Sale is the “ghost artist” for the painter character on HEROES, and over at Newsarama Zack Smith finds out everything you would want to know about the gig: Newsarama: Starting with your Heroes work, how many pieces have you done so far? Tim Sale: I’ve done maybe 20 [...]
Continue ReadingComics news briefs: Tellos, Legion, Batman
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOver at CBR Todd Dezago talks about a collected edition of TELLOS by himself and Mike Wieringo, due from Image. The new edition features every “Tellos” work created by the Dezago/Wieringo team, including all ten issues of the original series, two 10-page side-stories and an additional 5-page supplement that appeared elsewhere in [...]
Continue ReadingWhat's happenin'!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ “Funky Winkerbean” cartoonist Tom Batiuk has won the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Care Hall of Fame Award for his comics about the Lisa character’s battle with cancer. § Iranian cartoonist wins Syrian award for nothing to do with prophets or the Holocaust. The topic was “travel” and it was a very [...]
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